can't log in

[ulrich at barfuss-jerusalem.org]

hi , 
thanks for pointing this out,
i really wasnt sure whose to blame, cause everytime this had happend to 
me i did both: running k3b and updating the system with synaptic.
i always thought that updating some packages were causing this.

thanks

ulrich

Stefan Kluth <skluth at mppmu.mpg.de> schrieb am 15.10.2004, 11:09:20:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 08:39:10AM +0200, ulrich wrote:
> >
> > > hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console, login, then
> > > 	'sudo chown $USER:$USER .ICEAuthority'
> > > where $USER put your username.
> > > the problem is, after updating some package chowns this file to
> > > root:root, and youre not able to login.
> >
> > No package does any such thing; that would be a serious bug.
> >
> > This apparently happens if you run some unsupported KDE apps under sudo.
> 
> see http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/RootSudo
> 
> Cheers, Stefan
> 
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